This is what I get for playing grumpy leftie on my phone.

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My thoughts on the wedding - as a media event, has to be 10/10. The architecture, setting, artefacts, vehicles, ornamentation, guests, and weather were perfect. Oh, and the minister. I liked the cellist in particular. (Who I now know is called Sheku Kanneh-Mason, won BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2016, and was personally asked by Meghan Markle to perform. I didn't watch the long sermon, I feel that kind of American religious enthusiasm is rather vulgar, to be honest.)

I'm not either royalist or republican - here in Australia, Queen is technically still head of State, but I don't have really strong feelings on the matter. But I've come to like the Royal Family because they're not useful or instrumental or economically justifiable and they haven't been rationalised out of existence yet (among other things).

There are alternatives, they're called books. — tim wood

What TV channel, and when's it on?

what exactly is the distinctly unjust power structure, and how is it unjust? — tim wood

I guess you have a wide choice here. Royalty, marriage, royal marriages, royal inheritance laws, the colonial dynamic still in place that means that me, a Francophone with a familial history of war against the English, must be subjected to this display of inequity.

Please make clear what the disgusting saturation is. I do agree there can be saturation coverage of some events, but not disgusting. — tim wood

I guess that you don't realize what the English Crown stands for to many people. To me it's the sign of our subjugation. It's the sign of the War Riots, when in 1910 the Canadian army on orders from the British opened fire on Francophone war protesters, something for which the Crown still hasn't apologized. It's the sign of the enemy of the Patriotes. It's the sign of Louis Riel's execution, of my great great grandfather's exile.

So it sounds like all your difficulties are personal in nature. — tim wood

Euh, so, what the fuck does that have to do with anything. So it's not a superstructural systematic issue, so what? Yes, it's a personal issue, which stands for a certain personal-yet-historical point-of-view. Big whoop.

that confusion over the nature of your problems is itself a problem, and you will be a better, happier person if you work on that. — tim wood

Thank you, Jordan Petersen. :vomit:

Besides, if you fail to recognize that Markle's marriage into the royal family is extremely interesting for all kinds of reasons, and that the wedding itself was as well, then you lack historical perspective, and imagination, and empathy. — tim wood

Yes, if I don't care about the most meme'd and internalized social display there is, then I'm a sociopath. How about, if you fail to recognize that Markle's marriage into the royal family is extremely otiose to everything relevant, then you lack historical perspective, imagination, and intelligence? There, fixed it for you.

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Not much of a barque to carry one's flag, and he appears tainted by Scott. — tim wood

Eh. What? He executed Scott. Actually, he fell under the pressure of my great great great grandfather Ambroise-Didyme Lepine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise-Dydime_L%C3%A9pine) who forced Riel to agree to execute Scott. Scott had spent his trial shouting racist insults and death threats at the judge (Riel).

Louis Riel was a proper saint. He did everything to defuse the Red River situation, up until the Reds decided to start burning Metis houses, at which point he agreed they had no choice but to start to kick some asses.

If it is ok with the moderator I will move my post here to its own thread, as the questions it raises in respect of the perpetuation of the Barbey-Ken Princess-Prince myth do not appear to be relevant to this thread.

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Quite interested in your attitude about the whole issue.

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When you say 'attitude' do you also mean 'observation'? Or are you intimating that perhaps I was in a bad mood or good mood when I wrote the piece?

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When you say 'attitude' do you also mean 'observation'? Or are you intimating that perhaps I was in a bad mood or good mood when I wrote the piece? — Marcus de Brun

One has to wonder, was it an accurate observation? I think there is much to talk about this issue.

I will transfer it to its own thread, and I look forward to your 'observations' on my 'observations'

Indeed there is much to be considered.

I am working through the interesting pieces you have posted in relation to your thread on 'Sufficient Reason' More of this anon.

:)

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